Google Mars 3D, a new mode included in Google's latest version of Google Earth software, allows users to tap into high-resolution and three-dimensional views of Martian terrain from the comfort of their own personal computer.

If you plan to be anywhere from the southern third of Africa, to southern and eastern India, southeastern China, Southeast Asia, and virtually all of Australia on Monday, January 26, you will be treated to a view of a solar eclipse.

SpaceShipTwo will carry two pilots and six passengers. The spaceship is twice as big as its predecessor, SpaceShipOne, the first privately-funded suborbital spaceplane, which now hangs in the National Air Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Pop favors property rights over group hugs.
"Despite the noble ideals of equity and care for the have-nots, the Common Heritage paradigm of the Moon Treaty has more faults than merits," Pop told SPACE.com.

How the MKV-L concept works & its successful first hover ground test (Dec. 2008). The actual ground test footage is bookended by CGI concept clips so you'll know what you're watching. See how missile defense will deal with countermeasures.

Three undergraduate students have discovered a large planet orbiting a fast-rotating star. Extrasolar planet discoveries like this have become common, but this one is unusual both for who found it and the type of star it orbits.

Everybody has seen Armageddon and knows that an asteroid could come hurdling toward us. But there are a whole lot of other threats out there in the cosmos that could wipe us out at any moment. And we'd probably never see them coming.

SpaceX announces adding of 2 DragonLab missions to its manifest. The first 2 flights are scheduled for 2010 and 2011. DragonLab is a free-flying, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads to and from space.

Astronomers looking at the spectacular supersonic plumes of gas and dust shooting off one of Saturn’s moons say there are strong hints of liquid water, a key building block of life. Adds to the growing push to explore further the moon Enceladus, as o

The full mission duration test firing of the Falcon 9 rocket first stage lasted 178 seconds. The 9 Merlin engines produced 855,000 lbs. of thrust and consumed over half a million pounds of liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene during the test.

Ground-penetrating radar used by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals numerous huge glaciers up to one half-mile thick buried beneath layers of rock and debris. Researchers said one glacier is three time the size of Los Angeles in area.

Astronomers have taken what they say are the first-ever direct images of planets outside of our solar system, including a visible-light snapshot of a single-planet system and an infrared picture of a multiple-planet system.

A probe sent from the orbiting mother spacecraft took the pictures and gathered other data that India needs for a future moon landing. The box-shaped probe was painted with India's saffron, white and green flag and it slammed into the moon's

From 1:22 a huge building or base (looks like a oil platform) on four large legs comes into view. The alien structure was filmed with a Meade lx 200 gps 10inc telescope. ( i didn't film it) All props goes to the original up loader at disclose.tv

Private rocketry took another big step here thanks to the persistence and space spunk of Armadillo Aerospace. After years of dedicated work, the team of rocketeers snagged a large chunk of prize money in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.

What might an amateur space sector look like? It is an important point that it does not need to be an integrated effort at all. It could constitute any form of participation, from contributing to a blog and no more to a full machine shop with at leas